Resilience E-Book

Liggy Webb

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 203

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

BOUNCE BACK FROM WHATEVER LIFE THROWS AT YOU

Stressful situations are a fact of life. Job insecurity, financial burden, relationship doubt are all too familiar. Some people approach them with confidence and poise, facing change and challenges head on. Others back away slowly into a corner and become quivering wrecks at the mere thought of them. So what is it that makes some people cope with these adverse situations so well? It’s not about what is happening to you, but how you react to it. It’s about your resilience.

Happiness guru Liggy Webb is here to help us all find positivity and inner strength to cope with stressful situations. Arming you with a personal toolkit to handle day to day challenges, and providing strategies for thriving in uncertain times Liggy shows you how to increase your ‘bouncibility’ and bounce back from whatever negative things life throws at you.

• Timely topic with governments across the world promoting happiness on the one hand and dealing with vast economic uncertainty and austerity on the other

• Easy to digest, anecdotal and practical guide with lots of common sense advice

• Contains timely examples and tips tailored for coping with difficult times

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Epigraph

An Introduction to Resilience

A Personal Story of Resilience

1. Take a Journey of Self-Discovery

2. See the Glass Half Full

3. Take Emotional Control

4. Change for the Better

5. Cope Well with Conflict

6. Embrace Probortunities

7. Look after Yourself

8. Make Connections

9. Keep Going

10. Create a Vision

How Resilient Are You?

1 Take a Journey of Self-Discovery

Be Your Personal Best

Ask Yourself the Following Questions

What Value Do You Give Yourself?

Fear and Desire

Learn to Trust

Feedback

Invest in You

Building Self-Confidence

2 See the Glass Half Full

A Day Closer to Being Better

How to Be Optimistic

Mind Over Matter

Learning Opportunities

3 Take Emotional Control

Emotional Resilience

Defining Key Emotions

Food for Thought

The Emotional Roller Coaster

4 Change for the Better

1. Embrace Change

2. Be Open-Minded

3. Prepare Your Emotions

4. Relax and Go with the Flow

5. Be Positive

6. Keep Your Powder Dry

7. Get Support

8. Challenge Your Perspective

9. Chunk Up Change

10. Make a Plan

5 Cope Well with Conflict

What Is Conflict?

The Benefits of Conflict

Coping with Conflict

6 Embrace Probortunities

Problem Solving

Be Creative

Make Decisions

7 Look after Yourself

Positively Managing Stress

Managing Stress

Relaxation

Balance Your Life

8 Make Connections

Appreciate Your Family

Cultivate and Nurture Friendships

Relationships and Resilience

Connect to Your Purpose

Finding Meaning

Make a Difference

9 Keep Going

Learn to Let Go

Control the Controllables

10 Create a Vision

Vision and Goals

How to Set Goals

Achieving Goals

How to Create Your Vision and Make It Happen

Desiderata – A Creed for Life

Resilience Materials

40 Ways to Bounce Back

Top 20 Survival Songs

Useful Resources

Books

Websites

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Index

Cover design: Binary & The Brain

© 2013 Liggy Webb

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Webb, Liggy.

 Resilience : how to cope when everything around you keeps changing / Liggy Webb.

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This book is dedicated to friendship

Thank you to the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

For those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know.

From a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt on the 23 April 1910, at the Sorbonne in Paris

An Introduction to Resilience

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Have you ever felt sometimes as if you would like to stop the world and get off for a while, just to have a little rest, recover and make sense of it all? In the increasingly demanding and changing world that we live in, it is so easy sometimes to become overwhelmed and feel as if you are sinking.

At some point, everyone experiences varying degrees of setbacks. Some of these challenges might be relatively minor and others may have a major impact. How you deal with these problems can play a major part in the ultimate outcome and also your long-term psychological well-being.